American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals

PEM Captures island allure through the eyes of America's leading impressionist painter. American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals. On view July 16 through November 6, 2016. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, the first exhibition in more than 25 years to focus on Hassam's paintings of Appledore, the celebrated Maine island.

Co-organized with the North Carolina Museum of Art in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory, the exhibition is on view at PEM from July 16 through November 6, 2016 and features more than 40 of Hassam’s greatest oil paintings and watercolors of the coves, inlets, ledges and expansive seascapes that inspired his prolonged creative engagement with this alluring island. A suite of 12 contemporary black-and-white photographs by Alexandra de Steiguer also included in the exhibition artfully captures Appledore today. Six miles off the coasts of southern New Hampshire and Maine, Appledore is the largest island in a storied archipelago in the Atlantic known as the Isles of Shoals.

As Austen Barron Bailly, PEM’s George Putnam Curator of American Art, notes, "this exhibition explores how the artist Childe Hassam found such variety and creative inspiration from what is essentially a speck of granite in the Atlantic Ocean."

EXHIBITION CREDIT
The Peabody Essex Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art co-organized this exhibition in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory. Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation provided generous support. The East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum also provided support.
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